PUBLIC NOTICE
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION News Media Information: 202-418-0500
445 12th STREET, S.W. Internet: http://www.fcc.gov
WASHINGTON, D.C.  20554 TTY:  1-888-835-5322
DA 07-1613
April 4, 2007
Media Bureau Announces NCE FM New Station and Major Modification 
Application Filing Window for New and Certain Pending Proposals; 
Window to Open on October 12, 2007
The Media Bureau (the “Bureau”) announces a filing window for applications for noncommercial 
educational (“NCE”) FM new station and major modification construction permits.  The Commission 
recently directed the Bureau to open this NCE FM filing window in October 2007 in connection with 
the Commission’s tentative selectee determinations for 76 groups of cut-off and mutually exclusive 
NCE FM new station and major modification proposals.1  The filing window will open on Friday, 
October 12, 2007, and close on Friday, October 19, 2007.  The window is available for FM reserved 
band (channels 201 – 220) proposals.
New applications must be filed electronically on Form 340.  Approximately 180 reserved band NCE 
FM new or major proposals for which the Commission has not provided an opportunity to file 
competing applications are currently pending before the Bureau. These non-cut-off applications were 
paper-filed prior to a filing freeze imposed by the Commission in April 2000.  In order to participate in 
the October 2007 window, applicants must electronically amend these pending applications by 
completing Sections III (Fair Distribution of Service), IV (Point System Factors), V (Tie Breakers) and 
VI (Certification) of Form 340.  The Bureau will dismiss any pending non-cut-off NCE new station or 
major change application that is not amended by the close of the window to include the required 
information.
The Bureau will provide additional information about filing procedures and requirements by public 
during the next several months.  Interested applicants also may monitor the Audio Division Web Page 
for information and developments:  http://www.fcc.gov/mb/audio/.
For additional information, please contact Clyde Ensslin, (202) 418-0506 (News Media) or Peter H. 
Doyle, (202) 418-2700 (Audio Division).
By:  Chief, Media Bureau
  
1 See Comparative Consideration of 76 Groups of Mutually Exclusive Applications for Permits to Construct New 
or Modified Noncommercial Educational FM Stations, FCC 07-40 (¶ 204) (rel. Mar. 27, 2007).  The deadline for 
filing petitions to deny the tentative selectee applications is May 2, 2007.  See Broadcast Applications, Report No. 
26455 (rel. Apr. 2, 2007).
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